"We will not allow Torah, halachah, and Shulchan Aruch to be abrogated" 

Photo: Eretz Hakodesh

"We were dispersed in galus for thousands of years, but there is only one Torah. It has been kept throughout all of these years, and we will not allow Torah, halachah, and Shulchan Aruch to be abrogated because of a small handful of people who are putting forth recommendations to the government that are liable to tear our nation into pieces.”

—Rabbi Pesach Lerner, founder of the Eretz Hakodesh organization, which organized a protest of hundreds of rabbanim proclaiming in a unified voice that there will be no rabbinic recognition of Israeli conversions performed without the approval of the Chief Rabbinate.

(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 898)